Lyaa Yoga - 1

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I read one of the articles which descibes what Lyaa Yoga is. I am

translating it from hindi to English.

 

 

There is one story..... Father and son went to a market and from there

they bought a donkey for carrying the load. Taking donkey along with them

they sarted heading towards their village on foot. On the way people saw

them and said - " What foolish people are these! They have a donkey and

still they are travelling on foot " . When the teasing of people increased a

lot then father made his son sit on the donkey. After walking a bit of

distance people again teased them saying - " Look! Father is walking on

foot and son is sitting on donkey, the time when elders used to be

respected has elapsed " . When the teasing became unbearable for the son,

he got down and made his father sit on the donkey. After sometime one more

comment came - " young child is walking on foot and this person who is

used to facing the hardships of life can't he walk on foot ? Its due to

this attitude that old are no more respected. " After all this frustation

both father and son decided to sit on donkey and thought now people wil,l

not comment on them. But after travelling a bit....... " It seems the

humaness in a human being has died, see how these two persons are loading

a single living being, donkey. " This hard comment came forth.

 

 

What is meant by this is that whatever a person may do even after putting

his best efforts, one still has to listen to the comments, harsh words, of

others. Disputeless life would rarely be possible for anyone and one

a large part of ones energy, which should have been used in creative

works, decays getting enegaged in useless disputes.

 

 

It will be rare that there be someone who feels that he is living a all

free life, a life of ease (means one takes the life as it comes). Every

person has ones own privacy or a period of solitude through which one

revitalizes the cells of ones brain and body. But does this happen easily

for him. Here privacy and solitude doesn't mean the lonliness of a well

decorated room. Solitudeness means the silence of mind and body (chitta).

If mind is entagled in web of thoughts then neither the silence of a well

decorated room nor does any mean of entertainment comfort us and give

peace.

 

 

 

 

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